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Category Archives: Soulful Expressions
Grief and “Rising Cairn” by Celeste Roberge
The artist's sculptures can exemplify the weight of grief
Everyone experiences grief in profoundly different ways. Art can assist people during these difficult times. The “Rising Cairn” sculptures by Celeste Roberge exemplify the feelings many people experience during those periods of grief. Roberge has installed “Rising Cairn” in multiple … Continue reading
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The Breathtaking Simple Beauty of Iqaluit Municipal Cemetery
An Arctic burial ground wins awards for its simple but stunning visual design
Glittering snow. Skies of piercing blue. Vistas of frozen tundra. A breathtaking cemetery rising above the fragile permafrost. While it may not be what you expected, this is what you’ll see at the Iqaluit Municipal Cemetery in the Nunavut region … Continue reading
Yayoi Kusama’s Captivating Infinity Rooms
The Hirshhorn Museum shares four decades of the Japanese octogenarian's work
Born in Matsumoto, Japan in 1929, Yayoi Kusama is an internationally recognized avant-garde artist whose work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford England, The Center for International Contemporary … Continue reading
Jennifer Rodgers Created Artistic Maps As She Walked Through Her Grief
In the wake of her father's death, the artist began creating artistic maps
In 2014, artist and high school art teacher Jennifer Rodgers began creating artistic maps after losing her father to sepsis. Sepsis is a condition caused by the body’s response to infection, resulting in inflammation that can lead to tissue damage … Continue reading
Van Gogh Saw the Promise of Christmas in his “At Eternity’s Gate”
Even in darkness the troubled artist found light
An old man slumped in a chair holding his head in his hands appears in a number of Vincent Van Gogh’s lithographs and paintings. At first, the figure, dressed in work clothes and worn leather shoes, seems bent in total despair. But … Continue reading
Four Contemporary Urn Designs that Beautifully Defy Tradition
Modern designers are rethinking the funerary urn with contemporary designs
When I think about the aesthetics of death, at least here in the United States, a certain set of characteristics come to mind: dark colors, somber motifs, and fairly rigid forms that conform to traditions established long before I ever … Continue reading
